As Steve Kerr left his sports analyst positions at an odd time in the middle of the playoffs leaving his non-basketball employers "hanging", do you think that Phoenix President and GM Steve Kerr's active attempt to get Tim Duncan and Bruce Bowen suspended over an event only brought up by Phoenix' Steve Kerr and no one else while Steve Kerr was acting as a sports analyst, do you think that this was ethical.
The NBA investigated Phoenix President and GM Steve Kerr's allegations and found nothing in the alleged allegations.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=sk-sunsspurs051507&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
2007-06-13 22:07:16 · 9 answers · asked by Score 4 in Sports ➔ Basketball
I only mention this as my brother who lives in Phoenix just told me what he knows about the incident, and I have to go by my brother's word who is a Phoenix season ticket holder, in that it was Steve Kerr as a TV analyst was the first one to suggest in the media on TV in fact that Duncan and Bowen be suspended.
If you think that Kerr is ethical, reread the attached article and look at all of the adjectives which praise Phoenix.
It is an old article; however, I only found out about the details from Phoenix's end where Kerr pressed the NBA front office to investigate and was pushing hard for the suspension of both Duncan and Bowen.
In fact Kerr was pushing so hard on the NBA front office over the incident that in one of the TV games between Phoenix and the Spurs that Coach Popovich went over and slammed the table in front of Steve Kerr announcing the game with Coach Popovich telling Steve Kerr in no uncertain words that what Kerr was doing was not appreciated.
2007-06-13 22:47:30 · update #1
Nash did miss 45 seconds at the end of Game One after Nash committed a foul which caused Nash to bleed. The NBA referees stopped the game for 10 minutes which I think is only fair if the best player on a team contending for the NBA title is bleeding. For any other player, play would have resumed immediately. Actually the 10 minute stoppage probably helped the Spurs more than Phoenix as Nash almost TKOed Tony Parker with the accidental headbutt with the 10 minute delay probably helping Parker to get his head back together from Nash's collision initiated by Nash which is why the foul was called on Nash, so Nash missing part of the end of that game can only be blamed on Nash.
2007-06-13 23:23:02 · update #2
I had no idea Steve Kerr was such a sniveling little weasel.
2007-06-13 22:22:43 · answer #1 · answered by Alice K 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First and foremost, Kerr left Yahoo immediately after his TNT analyst contract was up. Yahoo and Steve parted ways mutually, and this was how it was always going to work long before the NBA Playoffs even occurred. He wasn't going to stick around for the finals, because as a GM, the more time you have to work before the next season, the better.
Second of all, the incident in question, where Bowen and Duncan did in fact leave the bench was mentioned MANY different times by MANY different sources, and was analyzed several times on ESPN. The NBA deemed that the incident didn't apply under the same rule as the Diaw/Stoudamire incident. Steve did not vehemently argue this. He never even mentioned it again after his initial mention in the first article about that game. He didn't do that because he was looking out for the best interest of Phoenix, but because he was being paid to analyze what happened during the playoffs, and that game was a big deal. Kerr's done nothing unethical, he's only done his job. There's nothing even remotely dubious about this.
2007-06-13 22:33:00 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor S 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think being a fan of Spurs or Phoenix could cloud your judgment. And I don't think any person is immune.
However, the major problem that Steve Kerr's commentary wanted to address, was to keep the playoff legitimate.
After the phoenix loss to San Antonio the viewer ship dropped significantly, because viewers started seeing the playoffs as arbitrary. I think people like to watch a fair game. I didn't even watch the next two games of the series. If you read all the commentaries right after the incident, they were all trying to keep people interested in watching the rest of the playoffs.
The series already was suffering from legitimacy because Steve Nash missed the end of game 1. Once the suspensions occurred, it lost the rest of it.
2007-06-13 22:54:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ali H 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First of all Kerr didnt leave in the middle of T.N.T'S playoff coverage.He left when they were done,in fact delaying his annoucement.Second Kerr played and won a championship with the spurs.If you had a clue as the type of person Kerr is you would read that article you so threw in everyones face and see the first point Kerr made was Stoudimare and Daiw should be suspended as to the letter of the law.But at the end he suggested the only person worthy of suspension was Horry are you going to disagee with that?
2007-06-13 22:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by charlie p 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
And where's the proof that the NBA had an investigation into that? Because I don't believe you.
And yet another fake, bandwagon jumping female Spurs "fan" tries to say Nash was acting when Horry gave him an unexpected forearm and pushed into Nash while he was trying to stay in bounds. They like to make excuses for Cheap Shot Rob. As if you could possible get ejected immediately, and then suspended for 2 playoff games over someone flopping. I don't know whether Spurs fans are more delusional than they are clueless. It's one of them though.
2007-06-13 23:33:47 · answer #5 · answered by SW1 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thats Ridiculous! Why would they both get suspended? Thats almost the stupidest thing i've ever heard. The first was when Tim Duncan was Ejected from the game for laughing. Diaw and Stoudemire were clearly going on the court to contribute to the fight. The spurs are one of the best sportsmanship team. Nash a a good actor. Horry did shove him, but not as hard as he made it seem. And Horry did pay his due. he was suspended for two games! Drop it already!
2007-06-13 22:20:00 · answer #6 · answered by v_chick2007 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It was ethical because he didn't offered the job as a Suns GM yet at that time.
What wasn't ethical about him was most of his articles were biased especially on the Mavs, Spurs and the Lakers.
2007-06-13 22:29:42 · answer #7 · answered by Opas 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm a huge Spurs fan and i say let's give the issue a rest. what's done is done.
The spurs will win their 4th title tomorrow, period.
Go Spurs go!!
2007-06-13 22:13:35 · answer #8 · answered by riqtan 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
im a suns fan, and i think that you should give this issue a rest already.
kerr wasnt attempting to suspend them, he was just stating the right thing. but then, you know. stern and stu are dirty too... cant do anything about that
2007-06-14 02:13:07 · answer #9 · answered by Savannah 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋